Just to add to my theory, XfallenAngel5X posted a thread . In this thread he states that his new magazine, Game Informer, has a release for Vampire: Bloodlines of October 26th.
To me, this basically says that my initial estimate of Oct 20th - Nov 17th is pretty close to accurate. Maybe HL2...
And now, the fact that the main mod for hl2.net posted in this thread to talk about how quickly 2 months will pass, makes me think even more that it will be a Novemeber release :P
In the interview with David Hodgson, he states:
Now, I noticed on HOCP they posted a message that one of their buddies who works for for a national retailer, shows the very book that David Hodgson was talking about for sale on October 17th.
Also, Gamestop shows this book on sale...
Worst case scenario, they find a crash, Valve fixes the crash and a new RC is released. That would probably be another week delay. Best case scenario is they play test it, everything looks good, it goes gold very soon.
The whole point of a release candidate is to FREEZE the code. This means that no more bug fixes are put in for fear that adding a bug fix can de-stabilize the code. A RC means that they feel the code is stable and they have fixed every bug they feel is worthy enough to fix. I am positive they...
OK, I know you guys like to scream at everyone that comes on the board about how something has been posted 10 billion times already, so if it has, don't yell at me. I don't check the boards 50 times a day(only 10 or so :D ).
Is this new or old...
Well, I've wanted to say this for a long time, but never got around to it. The start of pre-loading is a HUGE milestone. Even though you can't do anything with the pre-load yet, it means that HL2 is right around the corner (most likely). So you should get excited because you and I and...